The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-19
a CHAIN OE bright RESORTS. OF
WHICH SEA ISLE CITY rs a
SHINING LINK.

Did yon ever notice how many OF the
seaside resorts on The New Jersey coasta are
on islands? From Sandy Hook to Cape
May, a distance of one hundred and TWEEN
t~Y-seyen miles, is a string Of resorts, fully
seventy-fiye in number. For at least two
thirds of this distance the cities by the sea
are planted upon sandy beaches out in the
sea. From Sandy Hook 10 Bay Head the
resorts are on the main land. These in
elude Long Branch, Asbnry Park, Ocean
Grove, Ocean Beach, Spring Lake and Sea
Grit, aud a dozen places not as well
known. From Bay Head, at the top of
famous old Barnegat Bay, it is possible to
sail all the way TO Cape May without going
outside The chain OF islands.
First you will sail Town BarnegaI Bay,
passing Layellette, Ortley, Berkeley, Sea
side Park, and Island Beach. You cross
Barnegat Inlet and skirt the shore of
Long Beach IAN island), passing Rarnegat
City Beach, lIaryey's Cedars. Beach
Haven and Sea Haven. Across Little Egg
Harbor Bay, and you enter Abseeon Bay,
Brigatine Island being between you and
the ocean. At the sanken end Of Brigan-
tine you cross the famous inlet and hnd
yourself at Atlantic City. Through the
I~horoughfare and your boat takes you to
Longport at the end of the island, Abse-
con, which has Atlantic City at the north
ern extremity. Across Great Egg Harbor
Bay and you reach Peck's Beach with
Ocean City Another t~horoughfare car
ries you past the island to Corson's Inlet
at the northern end of Ludiam's Beach,
likewise an island, upon which Sea Isle
City is built. Then comes a series of
bays and inlets which lead you by Holly
Beach and Anglesea to Sewell's Point and
Cape May.
What a marvellous coast this is. And
where can anything like it be found2 And
all these resorts have been made possible
and been developed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Ii touches every where. Some
syndicate purchases a strip of beach and
improves it. Next We hear Of a Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad branch penetrating it, and
I To- II bttfS~btilS u ltfAo u tA1tA -
sort with hotels and cottages. Before
many years there will be a continuous line
of rails from Sandy Hook TO Cape May
Point, with not a mile Of anoeenpied beach
land.
Among these resorts you can make your
choice. There is the fashion Of Long
Branch, of Key East, Of Sea Girt, and
Spring Lake; the less fashionable but still
gay and temperate Asbury Park; the great
Methodist camp at Ocean Grove; the rest
less, crowded eosmopolitanism OF Atlantic
City, and the quiet eloqnenee Of Old Cape
May. Then there is the grand fishing and
sailing OF Barnesat Bay and the resorts Of
the neigiborhood. and the equally good
fishing of the bays south of Atlantic City.
Everybody goes to Atlantic, and rich and
poor jostle each other on the beach and in
the hotel Hobbies. Bat IL you would be rid
of all that; if yen would travel with a bag
instead of a trunk, and enjoy a free and
easy life free from the dictates of fashion,
go to Barnegat City Beach, Loagport,
Ocean City, Sea Isle City and Anglesea.
One of the newest places is Sea Isle. Ii
is of easy access, and express trains over
the West Jersey road take You directly to
it in tive hours. It is only about five
years old, and yet it ~rejoiees in several
hundred cottages and various hotels Many
Of these are built almost upon the very
edge of the sea, being separated from it
only by a sea wall five or six feet high.
The beach is hard as a plank. Ii is of pc
cuIiar quality. The dazzling white Of so
many beaches is absent in this. Fine
black sand is mixed with it in such guam
titles as to make it easy for the eye. And
there is no safer beach TO be found any
where. Its sea wall is a novelty. The
wall makes it possible for houses to be
built close to the water, something which
is very rare. Atlantic City and other re-
sorts might take an idea from sea Isle. A
like wall at Atlantic City wonld utilize
many hundreds of acres.
You can do as You please at Sea Isle, for
fashion will not dictate. Ifyou are tired
of the hurIy-burly and wish TO escape the
crowd there is no better place. You can
be comfortable and enjoy life by the sea in
it's purity. Fishing, sailing, and crab
bling wall give yen diversions on the water,
and excursion trips to Cape May, Ocean
City, Longpolt, and Atlantic City wilhe'p
You pass the time.
Farmers who work by the moon are not